No Saturday Racing in the St Island for the next 7 weeks

[Tesio]

What a joke, the next Saturday race meeting in South Island not until 25th June, then another 6 weeks until the next Saturday meeting for the Sth Island folk.

So only 2 Saturday meetings over the next 13 weeks down there.

[mikeynz]

There are a lot of things I dont understand at times, southern harness race mainly midweek before xmas and mainly saturday after Easter, maybe because the gallops dont as for why anything happens at times  hard to know.

[mikeynz]

Another anomaly in the calandar, next month Oamaru race thursday june 23, Riccarton the saturday yet the sunday before has nothing, another sunday in july has nothing, maybe a day Timaru could take, I dont race horses, the ones I bet on if I raced them I'd probably beat them.

That's just a observation.

Edited May 9, 2022 by mikeynz

[Huey]

2 hours ago, Tesio said:

What a joke, the next Saturday race meeting in South Island not until 25th June, then another 6 weeks until the next Saturday meeting for the Sth Island folk.

So only 2 Saturday meetings over the next 13 weeks down there.

Wow that really is hard to believe and completely ridiculous , as many already know the calendar is an utter farce.

All the same , plenty of AWT racing programmed in the SI to keep racing fans on the edge of their seats I presume?

[Freda]

2 hours ago, Huey said:

Wow that really is hard to believe and completely ridiculous , as many already know the calendar is an utter farce.

All the same , plenty of AWT racing programmed in the SI to keep racing fans on the edge of their seats I presume?

Yep. 

[mikeynz]

On 5/10/2022 at 10:47 AM, Huey said:

Wow that really is hard to believe and completely ridiculous , as many already know the calendar is an utter farce.

All the same , plenty of AWT racing programmed in the SI to keep racing fans on the edge of their seats I presume?

Now that Southland has finished will there be a mass exodus up to Canterbury for the AWT racing ?

Robert Dennis, is he giving up completely, i read somewhere he was going to just have 1 or 2 and do something else, as in a job someone will know.

The Taplins moving to oz and the Tyler's reducing numbers, it's going to be a very challenging time for racing in the south, I'm sure it will continue but in what capacity, who knows.

Kind of funny how people dislike AWT tracks for gallops yet they have been the greatest asset to harness racing in the south, racing right up to July, 2 different codes aye with different setups.

Edited May 15, 2022 by mikeynz

[Freda]

I think Robert has a position with the Chamber of Commerce in Invercargill...someone may know more details.

Certainly beats sloshing around in the mud seven days a week.